Festivus Games

Individual WODs for April 18, 2020 (No Teams)
WODs are not locked. Check back weekly in case there are tweaks.

Athlete? See Approved Hosts or Nominate Your Box to Host

WOD 1 - Gettin' Chippy With It (Cathlen Carter)

10-Minute Time Cap

- 20 Bar-Over Burpees
- 30 Back Squats
- 40 Sit-Ups
- 30 Back Squats
- 20 Bar-Over Burpees

WOD 2 - Curtis Over Under (Festivus Games)

PART 1

AMRAP 5 Minutes
- 3 Festivus Curtis Ps
- 9 Box Overs

Rest 1 Minute

PART 2

With a 2-Minute Cap
- 100 Double Unders --OR-- 150 Single Unders (Athlete choice)

WOD 2 Standards

Festivus Curtis Ps- 1 power clean, 1 reverse lunge, 1 reverse lunge opposite leg, 1 shoulder-to-overhead = 1 Festivus Curtis P rep.

  Power Cleans - The barbell must be cleaned to the shoulders in one motion. At the top, the hips and knees must be fully extended with the feet in line, the bar racked on the shoulders, and the elbows in front of the bar.

  Front-Rack Reverse Lunge - The athlete will then step back with either leg until the back knee touches the ground. They must then bring the back foot to the starting position with knees AND hips fully open and extended and then do the same movement with the other foot and knee.

  Shoulder-to-Overhead (S2OH) - The Festivus Curtis P is complete once the weight is fully locked out overhead and over the middle of the body. A shoulder press, push press, push jerk or split jerk may be used, as long as the elbows, shoulders, hips and knees are fully extended, and the bar finishes directly over the body with the feet in line.

WOD 3 - Dead Deader Deadest (Festivus Games)

It's back from 2015 - You choose the load!
  Max-rep deadlifts in 30 seconds separated by 1 minute 30 seconds rest X 3 rounds

0-3:00 minutes
   Athletes begin with an empty bar. Athletes will load the bar and begin their warm-up sets. Athletes may change the load as often as they want during these three minutes. Within these three minutes athletes must have their bar loaded at the weight they will perform the three rounds of 30-second, max-rep efforts. The bar load cannot be changed after this 3-minute warm-up period.

3:00-3:30
   Max deadlift reps

3:30-5:00
   Rest (load stays the same)

5:00-5:30
   Max deadlift reps

5:30-7:00
   Rest (load stays the same)

7:00-7:30
   Max deadlift reps

WOD 3 STANDARDS

The WOD begins with an empty bar on the floor and appropriate plates nearby to accommodate 275 total pounds (Male Intermediate) or 215 pounds (Everyone else) including the bar.

Deadlift - With arms straight throughout, with hand grip any the athlete chooses, and in a conventional stance with hands outside the legs, the Athlete will lift the bar to full hip extension finishing with the shoulders behind the bar at the top. The bar is then lowered quickly to the floor without bouncing. Touch and go is permitted. The object, for each of the three 30-second max-rep efforts, is to complete as many good repetitions as possible. Sumo stance is not allowed. Athletes are not allowed to touch the bar before the MC says "Go." If an Athlete touches the bar before "Go" the Athlete will be told to stop and restart.

Score 4: Load X total reps of 3 efforts combined
(e.g. 135lbs used, 1st all-out 20 reps, 2nd all-out 19 reps, 3rd all-out 18 reps = 57 total reps. 135 X 57 = 7695)

Instead of a standard “strength” WOD we’re shaking it up a bit. We don’t want this to be a gasser and we don't want an all out 5-rep dead lift or whatever. We LOVE, and think you will too, that this WOD involves strategy. Should you go 185 pounds X an average of 20 reps per set? Or is it better to go 180 for 21 reps average per set? You might see another person with 185 on the bar – same as you. But that means nothing. How many reps are you each going to perform with three 30-second all-out efforts?

WOD 4 - Ball and Chain (Kevin Pierce)

Two 2-minute Rounds
- 20 Wall Ball
- Max Cals on Rower with Remaining Time

On 3-2-1-Go! Athletes will perform 20 wall balls and use the remaining time of the 2-minute round for max calories on the rower. At the end of two minutes the MC will announce it's time to begin the second and final 2-minute round of the same. The WOD is exactly four minutes. There is no break between rounds.

WOD 4 Standards

Wall Balls- For the first rep, or anytime the ball is on the ground, the Athlete picks the ball up to a standing, full hip extension position with the ball in the front-rack position. The Athlete then squats until the hip crease is below the top of the knee. The Athlete stands up and throws the ball to hit the specified target. After the first rep, the Athlete catches the ball, squats to hip crease below the top of the knee, then stands and thrusts the ball to the height of the specified target.

Row - The athlete's feet do not have to be strapped in. The damper can be whatever the athlete chooses. At the start of the WOD the monitor will be reset to zero calories.

Wall Ball Variations:
   Intermediate Men: 20lbs/10ft
   Intermediate Women: 14lbs/9ft
   Novice/Masters Men: 14lbs/10ft
   Novice/Masters Women: 10lbs/9ft

FINALS WOD

There will be no FINALS WOD for the April 18th Individual comp. The top three Individuals after all the WODs above are complete, in each division, will make the podium!

STANDARDS VIDEOS

We will provide standards videos at least 8 weeks before the event. We reserve the right to tweak certain movement standards between now and then. Keep checking back here for modifications.

TIE BREAKER

Ties are automatically calculated so they don’t take up extra time with an extra tie-breaker WOD at the event.

If two Individuals are tied after 5 scores then the system looks at the raw score of Score 1 and sees who actually did better of the two. The one with the better Score 1 gets the higher placing – the tie is broken.

But what happens if those two Individuals have the same Score 1? Then it looks at Score 2 and so on until it finds the Individual who did better – that Individual gets the higher placing. It’s all automatic and doesn’t require Hosts to figure out some tie breaker WOD and take extra time on an already long day.

Some will say “Well ya but, had I known that I would have strategized better.” We feel this way - As an Athlete you should be giving your best for every WOD regardless of whether it might be a tie-breaker.

ADAPTIVE OR PARTICIPATION VS. COMPETING

Adaptive athletes, or those who are uninjured and otherwise healthy, but who have a limitation that prevents them from performing any of our event movements according to standards, are welcome and may still register to PARTICIPATE rather than COMPETE. However, any rep or movement sequence not performed according to our WOD standards will not count or be added to the score. Festivus Games is feats of strength for the rest of us, but it is a competition. Therefore, it's important that any rep and WOD sequence scores be according to uniform standards when COMPETING for a podium spot. Adaptive or otherwise healthy but limited-movement athletes should contact their specific Host directly to confirm accommodations that may be needed to facilitate PARTICIPATION. Also, athletes PARTICIPATING rather than COMPETING for podium should communicate with their judge for any WOD where additional scaling will occur so judges aren't verbally calling "No Rep!" even though they will not be counting the reps not done to standard.

WHATCHA THINK?